The light of reason and the law appears to have totally vanished from our sight as President B. S. Aquino 3rd insists on trying to qualify Sen. Grace Poe-Llamanzares as a possible presidential candidate in 2016, despite her incurable citizenship and residence defects. Some form of lower intellectual life would like to rescue PNoy and Ms. Poe from their predicament by asking her to lower her sights to the vice-presidency, for which she is neither qualified. At the same time, the Commission on Elections seems determined to put the foreign marketing firm Smartmatic and its voting machine in charge of the next elections, despite its abominable performance in the 2010 and 2013 elections, and its most recent disclosure to the British House of Commons that it is a 100-percent foreign subsidiary with no legal authority to do business in the Philippines.

Grace Poe may be politically more seductive than any other presidential aspirant, as Sen. Francis Escudero will be probably be only too happy to affirm, but not being a natural-born Filipino and lacking the 10-year residence immediately preceding the May 2016 election, she is not qualified to run for President, Vice-President, or even a seat in Congress. By behaving as though the natural-born citizenship and the 10-year residence prior to the election, as required of presidential candidates, did not exist, Aquino is doing his best to convince everyone that the Constitution, which he swore “to preserve and defend” five years ago, no longer works; that the only thing that counts is what he wants and what he says.

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